“The older I get, the less I care for superficial joys and cheap displays of nothingness. If it’s not meaningful and of substance, I don’t want it.”

So inspired by what it means to be a woman of substance. A woman of great poise and assertiveness.

I still have time to do everything I intend on doing and becoming and I’m certainly not running out of time.

Only you know how far you’ve truly come. Please don’t ever let that go unnoticed.

I try to focus on the fact that whatever I’m feeling right now, no matter how intense, painful and distressing; is temporary.

I’ve spent a lot of time holding onto things and people that brought me misery because I was afraid of the void that may be there once I let go. I know now my voids were just as illusionary as the fear and insecurities that created them.

Every step I’ve taken has rewarded me with a lesson and every single setback and disruption has straightened out in a manner that befits me.

I promise you are under no obligation to have it all together all the time.

Transitional periods can be painful, but they are crucial for your growth. Please allow this process to take you where you need to be.

I know my truths. I know exactly why I am the way I am and I’m secure with it. There’s not a single soul that can ever shame or guilt trip me into making me feel and think otherwise.

I have found that confiding in someone who loves you unconditionally to be extremely healing. A safe place to share and release.

There’s shift happening. You are moving through something; which explains why you have been slower and more withdrawn than usual.

Stop giving anger power in your life.

I want virtue, honesty, love and compassion. From myself and for myself.

Here to remind you that slow healing is still healing. Don’t be too hard on yourself.

Strong woman still need their hands held.

It’s really me vs me. Everything else is just unwarranted noise.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Now people think it’s cool to have a baby, but it ain’t cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That’s the future.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

It just kills me to see people lose someone they love, so I want to do as much as I can: give money to doctors and hospitals; get nurses in there that care; put a smile on a little kid’s face.

That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.